3DS available for preorder in Japan, causes massive mess

Today the nintendo 3DS was made available for preorder in Japan. Retail websites like Amazon sent emails to their customers to let them know about this new release…The “units” (keep in mind these are just preorders) were sold in a matter of minutes, and the traffic was so huge that apparently many customers couldn’t add the item to their shopping cart, getting repeated errors, as shown in some of the comments:

The comments say:

1. Why did you remove the 50 comments reporting errors?

2. Like everybody else, I was waiting for 9 o’clock on my cellphone, and when the time came, tried to get my preorder. But I kept getting error, error, error…

Now you can find the Nintendo 3DS for preorder at roughly twice the retail price, because most resellers are playing with the fact that it will most likely be impossible to get one on the real release day, February 26th in Japan (I’m sure all people who couldn’t get their preorder today are super happy to see that the guy who got the preorder before them was just planning to resell it immediately at twice the price ). The problem is the same on most retailers’ websites, and this is not surprising. The same happens for the release of each one of Nintendo’s or Sony’s new major console… It’s the first time I see it happening for a preorder though…

Are you excited about the 3DS? I’m strongly thinking of getting one…

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man the ds sucks 3ds is the same as ds only changes the screen is in 3d but the games are bad dont can run homebrews is only a device with 3d and games of kids more my psp can run homebrews and install plugins

Roxxas@ if you think that 3d effects,bigger screen,taking picture in 3d ,graphics like the ps2 are bad well yes the 3ds is bad and for hombrews u dont know yet because the 3ds has recently come and i heard that there is work in progress for that

i cant wait till the north american launch so i can get my hands on one of these. the line up that has been announced already is insane. kingdom hearts 3d, an ocarina of time remake, mega man legends 3 and plenty of others. i haven’t owned a nintendo system since the 64 but im definitely getting a 3ds.

I haven’t been interested in any nintendo handheld since the gameboy advance. and the last nintendo console i owned was the gamecube cause i got it for half the price of retail (brand new). So I don’t think I’ll care about this one either. Nintendo’s library just caters to kids and super casual gamers, I’ll be comfortable passing on their products any day. They add some tech “advancement” with their releases, but really they could have been done better. I miss sega…

3 hours of gameplay with a risk of blindness… what a great combination, a surely must buy !!!! I wonder how many will get eye problem (maybe go blind if lucky) because of 3ds in a year, lets just wait and see :p

I been a Nintendo fanboy all my life… then the DS/Wii era came and they went all “Nintendogs & Cooking Mama” on me, while ruining Legend of Zelda. I’ve pretty much lost every last bit of respect I had for Nintendo… and it’d take a lot for 3DS to change that.

I was surprised to see games like MGS, Dead or Alive, SSF4 and RE, but so late in the game that it might not even be able to distract me from Phantasy Star Portable 2 on PSP… or the upcoming FFType 0, God Eater, Trails in the Sky Trilogy, Tactics Ogre, etc…

I might get it just for the sake of novelty, but my DS barely ever gets touched and this’ll probably end up the same way.

We need Microsoft or Apple to step in and show these boys how it’s done. Nintendo are once again going to release a console that is far behind it’s peers (It’s basically a PSP with slightly polished graphics, a touch screen and 3d display) yet is still going to outsell its competitors thanks to its gullible fan base. The PSP2 looks to be something big, but the exclusive downloadable content is surely going to affect sales.

@wololo 6.20tn-c release – Added 50 MB large memory support for every PSP models except PSP classic. – Added online gaming support. – Added server for TN NETWORK UPDATE. – Fixed bug in VSHMenu where CPU speed hasn’t changed when set it to default. – Fixed bug in Digital Comics that caused a crash. – Fixed server redirection. – Removed FAKE INDEX.DAT from VSHMenu, but feature is still effective (move version.txt to X:/seplugins/). – Signed HEN with prxEncrypter (thanks to Mathieulh, bbtgp, coyotebean, kgsws and everyone who involved to this project). – Used Davee’s $v1 trick to find power_buf_addr. also in the next revision that is 6.20tn-D he will have compatability of pops loaders playstation 1.

Gosh, I dont think I would be able to buy a vide-game in pre-order, mind it, we dont know if they really will release all the games they had promissed. We also haven’t reviews or evaluations done by real gamers, I mean here, not related or hired ones, not professional, but “normal/noob” gamers like most of us, which play games for fun only. Quite dangerous, you can buy a video-game thanks to the promisses and in the end it not be fullfilled, rather wait a bit a piece of the releases I expect be really confirmed in that console. ;o)

I sold my DSi, after owning since its release and hoping for a great game. Nintendo has had no good titles for their consoles since the days of the GameCube All the DSi ware they ever released were terrible All their products are for little kids or old parents…. No good titles and PS2 style graphics are not compensated for by the 3d The damn stylus was very painful to use with a game…

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